Redundancy Paved with Gold

There is probably only one way to recover from being made redundant, and that’s to find out you’ve just won over £1 million. A syndicate of four road maintenance workers from King’s Lynn found out last month that they would be made redundant in the near future, but syndicate leader David Brock still bought their lottery ticket for 14 March. Using a Lucky Dip they managed to select the winning numbers of 6,21,24,38,39 and 48. The jackpot that night was £8.4 million, shared between two tickets of which this syndicate had one, so their share of £4.2 million is shared four ways still giving them over £1 million each.

The syndicate checked their ticket in the local supermarket where they found out they were jackpot winners, and so now the despair of losing jobs they enjoyed, has turned to happiness as they start to reorganise their lives. David is planning a trip down under to New Zealand and Australia where he has relatives, and then a new house and car and fellow syndicate member Trevor Kimber, who checked the ticket, knows which new VW car he’d like.

- 27/3/07